Many companies have migrated mission-critical applications off the mainframe onto open standard relational database management systems (RDBMS) like Oracle for a variety of reasons. Regardless of why your business has elected to move off mainframe, once the decision has been made, your IT organization needs to know about the approaches, techniques, and tools to successfully migrate to a more modern application landscape or open standard RDBMS like Oracle. This white paper:

Discusses business and technical challenges of migrating off the mainframe.

Outlines the seven mainframe migration approaches that IT organizations can use to develop their strategies.

Explores common data migration project methodologies and tools.

Suggests ways to convert a serial approach to migration into a more effective, iterative process.